Baby Week Newcastle
About us
In Newcastle we want every baby in to have the Best Start in Life. We want all families to feel confident that Newcastle is a brilliant place to raise a child and for our children to be happy and healthy. This year will be our third Baby Week celebration which forms part of the Children and Families Newcastle family hub offer.
Children and Families Newcastle is a collaborative made of partners from health, statutory and voluntary organisations. It brings services together to support children and families to get the help and support they want and need. Over the past six years, hundreds of citywide events have been held throughout the United Kingdom with thousands of attendees including parents, expectant parents, practitioners and professionals , and of course babies! Baby Week Newcastle 2024 was a huge success with a citywide celebration attended by over 350 adults and babies!
Baby Week 2025 in Newcastle will be a weeklong celebration of activities, information and learning for families and professionals, highlighting the brilliant offers available to all throughout our four localities and ending with a citywide day long celebration at the Great North Museum Hancock! There will be information stalls from over 25 services supporting families in Newcastle and lots of free activities held throughout the museum including story time with the Dolly Parton imagination library and bath safety and weaning advice from the 0-19 service, Baby Massage, Dinosaur themed stories, sensory play boogie bairns and much more! The closing celebration will be held at the Great North Museum:Hancock on Thursday 20th November between 10am and 4pm.
The taster sessions will be aimed at babies or families with babies between 0-2 however please feel free to bring along toddlers or siblings! There will also be stalls from lots of organisations for attendees to receive information and find out more about services that can support families including:
- Midwifery North East Young Dad’s and Lad’s Talking Helps
- Health Visiting SEND vision and Hearing Solihull Approach
- Family Hubs Oral Health Healthworks
- The Children’s Foundation Barnardo’s Father’s and Male Carers NAPI
- Tyne and Wear Museums Children North East Tiny Lives
- NSPCC Perinatal Mental Health Team Castle Nurseries
- Newcastle libraries Starting2move Love, Amelia
- National Literacy Trust Reducing Parental Conflict Community Family Offer
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Where is Baby Week?
Many regions have just joined the Baby Week National Partnership? Get in touch to join us for the 2024 celebrations!
Leeds
Baby Week was born in Leeds in 2016 promoting the best start in life, bringing sectors together and celebrating babies! As a child friendly city, Leeds has a vision to make it the best city to grow up in.
Bradford
An opportunity to highlight what’s on offer in Bradford for expectant families and families with babies and toddlers, develop best practice, give families the opportunity to celebrate babies at some seriously fun-packed events.
Calderdale
In 2023, Calderdale will be celebrating its first ever Baby Week, with the theme of ‘play’ showcasing activities and support available for parents and their babies across the borough.
Cheshire & Merseyside
Began here in 2019, Baby Week brings together cross-sector organisations, families and caregivers to promote the importance of women’s health and giving all our babies the best possible start in life.
Redcar & Cleveland
Baby Week was celebrated in 2023 in Redcar & Cleveland where our local Family Hubs are launched a new best start in life offer for our expectant parents, parents and carers, professionals, and the public.
Newcastle
We’re really excited as 2023 will be the first year Newcastle will be celebrating and participating in Baby Week.
Torbay
We want to ensure that every child has the best start in life. That’s why we’ve joined the National Baby Week Partnership to highlight the importance of the first 1001 days of a baby’s life.
York
Jointly organised initiative working with Raise York (York’s Family Hub Network) and Health Services! We are excited to put together a programme filled with events that show the amazing range of services available to young children and their families in and around our city.
Durham
We want all children in County Durham to have the best start for life and are excited to be celebrating Baby Week for the first time in 2024.
Hull
On behalf of the Early Help Partnership in Hull, we are excited to be joining in with Baby Week for the first time in 2024. We are proud to work together with our parents/carers and committed team and Partners to ensure all children get the best start in life.
Buckinghamshire
In 2025, we are delighted to be celebrating Baby Week once again in Bucks where we'll be bringing together partners to promote how we work together to give children the best start in life.
Sunderland
Lead by Sunderland Family hubs, we are excited to bring Baby Week here. We want to ensure that every child in Sunderland has the best start in life through shining a spotlight on the first 1001 critical days with our partners, families and professionals.
Interested?
Want to be the next city to host baby week?
The success in 2023 meant that over 1000 events were advertised between 14 – 20 November! We’re on our journey to make this a national week for every city and region to be a part of.